Neuroendocrine liver tumors can be difficult to diagnose in the early stages since they often don’t cause symptoms. Tumor markers such as alpha-fetoprotein that can help diagnose other types of ...

Neuroendocrine ... The term carcinoid tumor is best used to describe NETs, which arise from aerodigestive tissues and have well- or moderately differentiated histology. Some refer to NETs with ...

Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer ... However, HCC with small cell histology (HCCSC) is extremely rare and remains a challenging diagnosis as it can mimic other ...

liver, and lymph glands. Neuroendocrine Tumor Types Doctors classify a NET based on where it starts in the body and how well organized the cells are in the tumor. NETs can occur in any part of the ...

The examination revealed heterogeneous echogenicity of the liver with 4–5 lesions. A diagnosis of a well-differentiated, intermediate grade, metastatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET) (Ki67 of 20%) was ...

Half of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, or MEN1, who developed duodenopancreatic neuroendocrine tumor liver metastases died within 10 years, according to researchers in the ...

Pawlik, MD, associate professor of surgery and oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine Liver Tumor Center, Baltimore, Maryland. The treatment for patients with neuroendocrine tumor liver metastasis ...

Neuroendocrine tumors secrete hormones that may cause specific syndromes. 1 We describe a patient with an endocrine pancreas tumor and liver metastases that synthesized sufficient cholecystokinin ...

Sometimes the goal is simply to choke off the blood supply to the tumor and kill it, a technique called bland embolization. Primary liver tumors and neuroendocrine tumors are especially dependent on ...

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